Organisation of the Center

The AR centre at Saint-Pierre University Hospitalis structured around two main centres of activity:

A) The 6^th floor of building 600 (Route 606), where consultations and AR monitoring take place. Here you will find:

• the secretaries’office where patients register and pay for their consultations, ultrasound scans, blood samples and medication;
• the area where the AR nurses work: blood samples are taken here every morning; gonadotropins are administered; gonadotropin injections are possibly given; registration over the phone of patients in cycle; reception of sperm samples for IUI and IVF; receiving patients for IUI and receiving couples who need extra information about AR;
• doctors’ consultation and ultrasound rooms where daily scans, IUI and fertility consultations take place;
• the andrology laboratory.

B) Operating theatre and in vitro fertilization laboratory:

The AR laboratory is located on the 6^th floor of building 500 in the operating area. The retrieval room, where the oocyte retrievals and embryo transfers are carried out, leads directly into the in vitro fertilization laboratory.

In addition to the AR centre at Saint-Pierre University Hospital, there is:

• a consultation unit in the Hôpitaux Iris Sud at theIxellessite, 63 rue Jean Paquot, 1050 Brussels. One of the Saint-Pierre University Hospital AR centre’s doctors is available for fertility consultations once a week (Monday mornings) and it is possible to carry out ultrasound scans and take blood samples there.
• a consultation unit at the Brugmann University Hospital centre, 4 Place Arthur Van Gehuchten, 1020 Brussels. One of the Saint-Pierre University Hospital AR centre’s doctors is available for fertility consultations once a week (Friday afternoons) and it is possible to carry out ultrasound scans and take blood samples there.